Quoting Colin Kilbane (colin at tyr.med.umn.edu):
> ok the version is vmware workstation 3.0,  
> The commands rpm -qa and rpm -qa | grep gcc did not return anything before
> or after i executed rpm --rebuilddb

Looks like you do not have gcc in stalled.

'locate gcc' return anything?

-- 
Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN        | Phone : (952)943-8700
http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux    | Fax   : (952)943-8500
Key fingerprint =  6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9